# current rnd projects > i'll play it first and tell you what it is later > ~ miles davis > to consider art as too often too laborious and impoverishing. years of fruitless accumulative effort. better to research and develop smaller simpler ideas with immediacy through imperfect conceptual exposition. in the republic of bob 'researchers' often actively pretend or merely assume such advanced rnd projects already exist - simulated along with ir summaries outlines and commentaries. this feels preferable - nothing like work - more non reasonable and effortless. scrawling and finding digital graffiti in the margins of bizarre virtual worlds > ~ paraphrasing jorge luis borges in ir hammock a fascinating view the full wisdom of which robert what has yet to fully grasp projects marked with status: conceptual or status: under way // republic of bob